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Short feature. The film imagines that at the end of Romeo and Juliet Romeo does not die; the poison the apothecary sold him was watered down. Romeo now works at the supermarket checkout.
Independent, experimental video. A re-working of The Merchant of Venice, that includes text from Kathy Acker’s reinterpretation of the play. Makes extensive use of live and pre-recorded video, and employs...
Television drama. Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival stage production directed for television by Bruce Minnix. George C. Scott is Shylock.
A musical version of the play adapted by Lionel Harris and Robert MacNab. The production originally ran at the Arts Theatre Club, London in a version with added music by Julian Slade. Dennis Ringrowe is the...
Cold war spy thriller based on the novel Call for the Dead by John Le Carre, about espionage in London. Includes Edward’s death scene (specially staged for the film) of a Royal Shakespeare Company...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1989 production of Coriolanus. Directed by John Barton and Terry Hands with Charles Dance as Coriolanus and Barbara...
Television documentary series. A nine-part series in which John Barton, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, works with RSC actors analysing how Shakespeare’s text works examining the use...
A teaching package for American high school teachers and students comprising: Teacher’s Guide to Shakespeare’s life and times and his role in American culture, with lesson plans. Recitation Contest...
A 20 minute reviewer’s reel for Paul Rudnick’s play I Hate Hamlet. Set in Manhattan, the action takes place in an apartment, once inhabited by John Barrymore. Andrew, a television star who has been...
A programme supporting the AA 306: Shakespeare; Text and Performance course. The audio and video resources for the course offer an insight into Shakespeare’s plays in close relation to the social and...
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